Gas-liquid separator

• US 3,339,350 A
• Filed: 05/28/1965
• Issued: 09/05/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sims, Robert W.
• Original Assignee: Sims, Robert W.
• Inventors: Sims, Robert W.
• Application Number:
  US04/459,620
• Time in Patent Office: 830 Days
• US Class Current: 55/320
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 46/10 Particle separators, e.g. dust precipitators, using filter plates, sheets or pads having plane surfaces

Claims

1. AN APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING ENTRAINED PARTICLES FROM GASES WHICH COMPRISES A CHAMBER, A VERTICALLY POSITIONED TUBE LOCATED WITHIN SAID CHAMBER, SAID TUBE IN OPEN COMMUNICATION AT ITS LOWER END WITH SAID CHAMBER AND OPEN COMMUNICATION AT ITS UPPER END WITH A FLOW MEANS EXTERNAL OF SAID CHAMBER, SAID TUBE HAVING A CYLINDRICAL UPPER SECTION, SAID CYLINDRICAL UPPER SECTION BEING FLARED AT ITS LOWER END TO A DIAMETER GREATER THAN THE DIAMETER OF SAID CYLINDRICAL UPPER SECTION AS AS TO PROVIDE A CONICAL SHAPED LOWER SECTION, A HELICALLY ARRANGED BAFFLE ON THE EXTERNAL SURFACE OF SAID TUBE, SAID HELICALLY ARRANGED BAFFLE BEING TERMINATED AT ITS LOWER END AT APPROXIMATELY THE POINT AT WHICH THE WALLS OF SAID CYLINDRICAL UPPER SECTION BEGINS TO FLARE TO FORM SAID CONICAL SHAPED LOWER SECTION, A FILTER MEANS WITHIN SAID TUBE, INLET MEANS FOR FLOWING A GASEOUS STREAM CONTAINING ENTRAINED PARTICLES INTO CONTACT WITH SAID HELICALLY ARRANGED BAFFLE NEAR ITS UPPER END SUCH THAT THE FLOW OF SAID GASEOUS STREAM IS DIRECTED DOWNWARDLY SUBSTANTIALLY ALONG THE PATH OF SAID BAFFLE, AND OUTLET MEANS AT THE BOTTOM OF SAID CHAMBER FOR WITHDRAWING PARTICLES SEPARATED FROM SAID GASEOUS STREAM FROM SAID CHAMBER.